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The Swimmers is a respectful and accessible refugee story focussing predominantly on the Mardini sisters – the titular athletes – and chronicling their 2015 journey from Syria to Berlin. The longish...

Memory requires active cultivation to exist: what we remember depends on the narratives we tell ourselves and others. Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s Memory Box is a beautifully textured ode to the...

Nocturama kicks off with a gripping start, weaving through Parisian streets and cutting back and forth in time as a group of teenagers carry out a series of attacks that shake the city. Director Betrand...